| 1: After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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| 2: And Job spake, and said, |
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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which
it was said, There is a man child conceived. |
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| 4: Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above,
neither let the light shine upon it. |
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| 5: Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud
dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. |
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| 6: As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be
joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the
months. |
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| 7: Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come
therein. |
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| 8: Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise
up their mourning. |
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| 9: Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for
light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: |
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| 10: Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid
sorrow from mine eyes. |
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| 11: Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost
when I came out of the belly? |
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| 12: Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I
should suck? |
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| 13: For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should
have slept: then had I been at rest, |
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| 14: With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate
places for themselves; |
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| 15: Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with
silver: |
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| 16: Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants
which never saw light. |
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| 17: There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be
at rest. |
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| 18: There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of
the oppressor. |
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| 19: The small and great are there; and the servant is free from
his master. |
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| 20: Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life
unto the bitter in soul; |
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| 21: Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more
than for hid treasures; |
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| 22: Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find
the grave? |
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| 23: Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God
hath hedged in? |
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| 24: For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are
poured out like the waters. |
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| 25: For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and
that which I was afraid of is come unto me. |
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| 26: I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet;
yet trouble came. |
